Clarity Challenge 10 – Scene building

I had a few candles left over after our crafty afty on the 23rd November which was why I  then  had a play with the Barbara’s scene building techniques and was so pleased with the the way it turned out I actually  made my first blog tutorial on it too. These stamping techniques are something

In the Craft room 7th December 2013

Christmas Ornaments part one Back in October when we were at the Harrogate Craft show there was a stall called ‘Everything a pound’. I spotted these sets of ornament shapes and thought that they would be ideal for our special Christmas crafty session. At a pound a set AND buy ten get two free it

In The Craft Room 30th November 2013 – Triple layer stamping technique

Where has the week gone ? I cannot believe half the week has gone and I haven’t written up Saturdays craft room report yet. How those who blog every day manage I do not know, still it could be worse, it could be Saturday again. I had promised that we would to some Christmas stamping

Quick Candle Stamping Tutorial (follow up to ‘in the craft room 23 Nov 2013’)

Tutorial as promised on main blog post from the Craft room 23 November 2013 Materials used – Candle, white tissue paper A5 piece card for mask, grease proof paper, scrap paper, black soot distress ink, Iced spruce distress ink( any dark dye based inks will do) red Sharpie pen. Tools – heat gun stencil brush/cut

In The craft Room 23 november 2013

It seems decorating candles is very popular at the moment, must be something to do with Christmas? I had promised the group last week that we would have a go at decorating candles this week and asked them to look out any old candles to bring with them to practice on. I had spotted some

Clarity Challenge 9 Christmas

Needing motivation to get all my Christmas cards made, I thought if I made one for the Clarity Challenge it might just get me started. I played around with a few ideas using the new Christmas stamps I have just purchased but nothing really sparked. I then watched Barbara’s new dvd and the tutorial with

Craft room 16th November 2013

Iris folding, Zentangle,  gelli play and more Yes I am still alive after last weeks blog, even after voluntarily owning up about the  photos I had posted to Jackie.She was easily placated with a cup cake,though it could also have something to do with the fact that she hasn’t actually seen the photos yet. I

12 tags of 2013 November

We have been having a go at Tim’s tags of 2013 in the craft room since September now, just for our own enjoyment, and it has been fun learning the techniques involved each month. This month though I have decided to come out of my comfort zone and actually submit my attempt at the November

In The Craft Room 9th November 2013

Iris folding back by popular choice It was back to a normal crafty afty this week, if you can call any of our craft sessions normal, so I say ‘normal’ in that the ladies just got to do what they wanted to do instead of a “structured session” . There were a couple of birthdays

In the craft room 2nd November 2013

This Saturday I had arranged a Kimekomi workshop as a change from card making My daughter and I became addicted to Kimekomi a couple of years ago and have made balls of all sizes for weddings, babies ,Halloween and of course Christmas. Kimekomi is also how the craft room came about after Lisa  asked if